A new novel from the author of }Wake{, this is a story of love and madness set at the brink of the Great War. Follows a new patient, a longterm resident and a young doctor at a pauper's lunatic asylum in the West Riding of Yorkshire. }Wake{ was the fourth bestselling debut hardback in 2014. Now in paperback

1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors,
where men and women are kept apart
by high walls and barred windows,
there is a ballroom vast and beautiful.
For one bright evening every week
they come together
and dance.
When John and Ella meet
It is a dance that will change
two lives forever.

Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, THE BALLROOM is a historical love story. It tells a page-turning tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.